'Shut your eyes and hang on': Truckie talks after crash

Gladstone truck driver Paul Warren is lit by the lights of emergency service vehicles at the scene of a three car-collision that involved his B-double at Tabbimobile on the Pacific Highway.Adam Hourigan

Coming round a blind corner in South Australia, he saw a Kenworth in his lane, and with no time to think took his only option.

"I went bush at 100kph," he said. "Just had to ride it out."

Yesterday, driving in torrential rain through Tabbimobile on a run from Brisbane to Sydney, he watched as a small truck travelling towards him aquaplaned across the road, hitting a car in his lane, and had to again take evasive action to not hit the oncoming cars.

"I just pulled it across... I just didn't want to kill anyone," he said.